Assessment Needs Analysis (Ana)

ASSESSMENT NEEDS ANALYSIS (ANA)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING THIS TEMPLATE

This template includes ALL elective and ALL residual skills of the SAICA training programme.

STEP 1

In the body of the form delete the Elective skills areas and Residual skills areas that are NOT applicable to the trainee’s training programme. No changes should be made to the Compulsory areas listed.

Now you have a TEMPLATE ANA to be used in the office for trainees on this specific training programme – no items are to be deleted for a specific period and the FULL form should be completed every time (so as to also identify areas where the trainee has not had any exposure)

STEP 2

Delete these instructions, as well as the instructions on the next page when the form is completed and printed (assuming all parties understand the process as indicated)

ASSESSMENT NEEDS ANALYSIS (ANA)

TO BE COMPLETED AT LEAST AT THE END OF EACH SUCCESSIVE SIX-MONTH PERIOD, BASED ON AT LEAST THREE TECHNICAL SKILLS REVIEWS AND THE PROFESSIONAL SKILLS REVIEW FOR THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD

COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS

STEP 1:

The trainee must complete the cover page for the document, indicating the relevant period of their training contract, as follows:

• First year of a three year training contract; or
• First and second years of a four or five year contract.

• Second year of a three-year training contract;
• Third year of a four-year training contract; or
• Third and fourth year of a five-year training contract.

• Third year of a three-year training contract or
• Fourth year of a four-year training contract; or
• Fifth year of a five-year contract.

STEP 2:

The trainee must complete SECTIONS 1, 2 and 3 using the previous ANA (if applicable) and the technical and professional skills reviews (TSRs and PSRs) completed in the past six months and based on their experiences during this period. The reviewer ratings (and complexity evaluations for each technical skills task) in the TSRs and PSRs should be transferred directly from the reviews onto this document. Professional conduct evidence recorded in the PSR that has been found acceptable by the reviewer should be transferred into the ANA.

STEP 3:

The evaluator must complete SECTION 1 by indicating the overall ratinglevel achieved by the trainee to date, based on carry forward evidence as well as new evidence presented through the current 6 month period being evaluated. Please note that this is not a mathematical average, but should rather reflect the evaluator’s judgement of the level of competence achieved by the trainee as at the date of this ANA. Demonstrated levels of competence that fall short of expected levels of competence specified by the training office at that point in time should be highlighted as areas of development and should be transferred to SECTION 4, point 2.

In tasks where no evidence has been presented by the trainee, the Evaluator should consider, and document, whether this may present a development need or not.The evaluator should also review and complete SECTIONS 2, 3 and 4

The evaluator should review the examples of professional conduct submitted by the trainee to date and consider the extent to which they demonstrate an understanding of the principles embodied in these competencies. Professional conduct competencies where the evaluator believes the trainee is not adequately demonstrating the principles should be highlighted as requiring development and should be transferred to the development plan in section 4.

STEP 4:

The ANA must be discussed, completed, signed off and dated by both the evaluator and the trainee.

STEP 5:

This document must then be reviewed, completed, and signed off by an Assessor. Assessors should complete SECTION 1, confirming the integrity of the carry-forward ratings from the previous ANA and indicating whether or not they are satisfied as to whether the trainee has now achieved the final required competence level for each task. This may need to be done through consultation with the evaluator (if the assessor is not also the evaluator).

TIMING:

Trainees must initiate at least one ANA form every six months;

The trainee and the evaluators must discuss and sign off the ANA form within four weeks from the end of the six-month period under review.

RATING CRITERIA:

1:Not capable of performing

2:Capable with significant / frequent intervention

3:Capable with limited / periodic intervention

4:Capable with no intervention

ASSESSMENT NEEDS ANALYSIS (ANA)

COVER PAGE

CUMULATIVERECORD OF CORE EXPERIENCE HOURS FROM THE START OF THE TRAINING CONTRACT UP TO THE DATE OF THIS ANA(to be completed by the trainee)

Period B

Note that the SAICA Training Regulations require an average of 1200 hours of core experience to be worked per annum across the period of the training contract.

SECTION 1

TECHNICAL SKILLS ASSESSMENT

Accounting and External Reporting

Auditing and Assurance Elective

Financial Management Elective